| Prologue |
| The Flamingo's Smile / 1： |
| Only His Wings Remained / 2： |
| Sex and Size / 3： |
| Living with Connections / 4： |
| A Most Ingenious Paradox / 5： |
| Adam's Navel / 6： |
| The Freezing of Noah / 7： |
| False Premise, Good Science / 8： |
| For Want of a Metaphor / 9： |
| Of Wasps and Wasps / 10： |
| Opus 100 / 11： |
| Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History / 12： |
| The Rule of Five / 13： |
| Losing the Edge / 14： |
| Death and Transfiguration / 15： |
| Reducing Riddles / 16： |
| To Show an Ape / 17： |
| Bound by the Great Chain / 18： |
| The Hottentot Venus / 19： |
| Carrie Buck's Daughter / 20： |
| Singapore's Patrimony (And Matrimony) / 21： |
| Hannah West's Left Shoulder and the Origin of Natural Selection / 22： |
| Darwin at Sea-and the Virtues of Port / 23： |
| A Short Way to Corn / 24： |
| Just in the Middle / 25： |
| Mind and Supermind / 26： |
| Seti and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel / 27： |
| Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs / 28： |
| Continuity / 29： |
| The Cosmic Dance of Siva / 30： |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
| Prologue |
| The Flamingo's Smile / 1： |
| Only His Wings Remained / 2： |
| Sex and Size / 3： |
| Living with Connections / 4： |
| A Most Ingenious Paradox / 5： |
